My Fitness Journey
Monday rowing, set the drag factor to about 150 and did a 2K warm up with 5 sets of 10 strokes hard in the last 1000m to wake the muscles up. Took a few minutes as a breather before attacking Dark Horse challenge A (0:45 for distance). I Managed 235m, i never really hit my desired…
Monday rowing, 10 minute 2K warm up followed by another go at Dark Horse challenge B (3:00 for distance). Managed 885m for an increase of 17m over Friday’s effort. 10K watching Battlestar Galactica S01E01 and then another go at Dark Horse challenge A (0:45 for distance). Only managed 231m, a drop of 11m from Friday,…
Monday rowing, the dog was still recovering from the ParkRun, so just a walk around the block and then because it was still early I decided to do a half marathon and watched the first half of the Battlestar Galactica mini-series finish time was 1:38:44.4, followed by a 2.2km cool down and then some stretching.…
Monday rowing, 2km warm up, 10km fat burner and 2.2km cool down, watched ‘Doom Patrol’ Season 2 Episode 7 Tuesday calisthenics, repeated last Tuesday’s workout, but increased some of the reps and times a bit. Straight Arm Plank – 3 x 1:30 Inverse Bent Knee Row – 3 x 8 Reverse Plank – 3 x 1:30…
Monday rowing, 2km warm up, 10km fat burner and 2.2km cool down, watched ‘Doom Patrol’ Season 2 Episode 4 Tuesday calisthenics, repeated last Tuesday’s workout, but increased some of the reps and times a bit. Straight Arm Plank – 1 x 2:00, 2 x 1:00 Reverse Plank – 3 x 1:00 Inverse Bent Knee Row…
Monday was largely a rest day, as I was still feeling the effects of the ParkRun and the 1/2 marathon, although I did some extra walking to and from the garage where my car was having its MOT. Tuesday calisthenics, repeated last Tuesday’s workout, but increased all of the reps and times a bit and…
Monday still felt like death from the head cold, so did no exercise other than walking the dog for an hour (5.4km). Weekdays always start at 06:00 with a 30 minute dog walk and finish with a dog walk ‘around the block’ before bed. Weekends and Bank Holidays start at 07:00 with a 1 hour…
Second week of calisthenics, I started to get a bit more adventurous Wall Push Ups – 3 x 50 Knee Tucks – 3 x 25 Incline Push Ups – 3 x 10 The next session I decided to include some progressions Vertical Pulls – 3 x 40 Shoulder Stand Squats – 3 x 50 Short…
I had a couple of good finds on Facebook Marketplace, an Innovation Fitness Powerbar 2 for pull ups and chin ups for £10.00, these are usually around £30.00 on Amazon. The Guy I bought the Powerbar from only lived just around the corner from me and even dropped it off for free. Also an Amazon…
Only a week into my gym membership, and already not convinced I will keep it up. I have recently been reading books on calisthenics, and body weight based exercise and think I will try and follow this as a strength training regime, rather than weights. I may still use the gym for access to decent…